What's the difference between move and sway?

Move


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
  • (v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
  • (v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
  • (v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
  • (v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
  • (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.
  • (v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
  • (v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
  • (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
  • (v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
  • (n.) The act of moving; a movement.
  • (n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
  • (n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (3) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (5) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
  • (7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (8) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (9) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (10) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
  • (11) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (12) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (13) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (14) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
  • (15) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
  • (16) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
  • (17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (19) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (20) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.

Sway


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
  • (v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
  • (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
  • (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
  • (v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
  • (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
  • (v. i.) To have weight or influence.
  • (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
  • (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
  • (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
  • (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  • (n.) Rule; dominion; control.
  • (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (2) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
  • (4) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (5) Few in Moscow are likely to be swayed by that explanation, however.
  • (6) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
  • (8) Diane Abbott , part of Ed Miliband's senior team, has accused Labour of being swayed by populist Tory attacks on immigration instead of standing up for diversity.
  • (9) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
  • (10) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
  • (11) If any donor held such sway over the Tories as Unite has over Labour, there would deservedly be an outcry.
  • (12) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
  • (13) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
  • (14) However, an important relationship between sway and falls was revealed.
  • (15) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
  • (16) (c) Motion aftereffect had no direct and immediate influence on sway path, but rather a latent and long-term effect.
  • (17) The results showed unstable body sway in the condition with eyes closed until at least 4 months after the operation.
  • (18) On the other hand, information on the direction of the expected body sway given in the visual fixation condition resulted in a considerable and approximately equal decrease of the two components (by 70-80 percent).
  • (19) Neuropsychologic and postural sway test performance improved following Ca(++)-EDTA chelation in a bridge worker with persistent central nervous system (CNS) symptoms 2 years after an episode of subacute lead intoxication.
  • (20) Sway activity was found to be significantly higher in the CCI group as compared with that of the normal controls.